BFI's 100 Cult Films
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"Some films should never have been made. They are too unsettling, too dangerous, too challenging, too outrageous and even too badly made to be let loose on unsuspecting audiences.
Yet these films, from the shocking Cannibal Holocaust to the apocalyptic Donnie Darko, from the destructive Tetsuo to the awfully bad The Room, from the hilarious This Is Spı¨nal Tap to the campy Showgirls, from the asylum of Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari to the circus of Freaks, from the gangs of The Warriors to the gangsters of In Bruges and from the flamboyant Rocky Horror Picture Show to the ultimate cool of The Big Lebowski, have all garnered passionate fan followings.
Cult cinema has made tragic misfits, monsters and cyborgs, such as Edward Scissorhands or Blade Runner's replicants, heroes of our times. 100 Cult Films explains why these figures continue to inspire fans around the globe. Cult film experts Ernest Mathijs and Xavier Mendik round up the most cultish of giallo, blaxploitation, anime, sexploitation, zombie, vampire and werewolf films, exploring both the cults that live hidden inside the underground (Nekromantik, Café Flesh) and the cult side of the mainstream (Dirty Dancing, The Lord of the Rings, and even The Sound of Music).
100 Cult Films is a true trip around the world, providing a lively and illuminating guide to films from more than a dozen countries, across nine decades, representing a wide range of genres and key cult directors such as David Cronenberg, Terry Gilliam and David Lynch."
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Begotten
1989, in 3 top lists Check -
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La belle et la bête
1946 — a.k.a. Beauty and the Beast, in 26 top lists Check -
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Edward Scissorhands
1990, in 10 top lists Check -
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Freak Orlando
1981, in 1 top list Check -
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La montaña sagrada
1973 — a.k.a. The Holy Mountain, in 9 top lists Check -
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It's a Wonderful Life
1946, in 33 top lists Check -
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2001, in 31 top lists Check -
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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2002, in 26 top lists Check -
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2003, in 29 top lists Check -
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail
1975, in 23 top lists Check -
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Star Wars
1977, in 40 top lists Check -
85 new
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
1980, in 25 top lists Check -
86 new
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
1983, in 18 top lists Check -
87 new
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
1999, in 5 top lists Check -
88 new
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
2002, in 4 top lists Check -
89 new
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
2005, in 6 top lists Check -
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The Wizard of Oz
1939, in 37 top lists Check
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